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Oklahoma is ranked 49th in public education. It is ranked 47th in high school dropouts. Teachers are paid 15 thousand less than other teachers nationwide. So, buying Trump bibles, which is lining trump’s pockets and violating the First Amendment is underway there. I have little faith, other than student protests that this egregious violation of the Constitution will be just fine in that state. I doubt that there are any non- Christian students in Oklahoma. States like Oklahoma brought us a second term of Trump.

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Of course they should take the Bible grifting money and pay the teachers more! Duh!

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The fact that MAGA members are hypocrites is not news. It has been recognized for a long time.

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Nov 21Liked by Steve Schmidt

Believe in our Constitution. Bravo Sir.

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A combination of hypocrisy and lack of guts!

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They were cowards standing by while this happened and not warning people. Fear of their jobs. Money and evil rules.

It is hard to believe that these Magda’s believe trump tells the truth.

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What a hypocrite!! Glad I don’t live in OK, which is not okay right now.

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Mace and Mullin do not care what they are called. None of the MAGA Nation care what we normal people think of them. It’s a cult. We are now ruled by a cult of personality. This is the beginning of the destruction of America, and it will drive some of us insane. I feel as if I am on my way there now.

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No Words😖! Thank You for writing on this(another ugly human being) topic today, Steve, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍

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Steve, I was with you from the very beginning in 2016. We will be losing our freedoms one by one.

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My only question. Why are you still on Twitter / X? Would love to follow you on Bluesky 😁

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I think Steve replied to a couple people yesterday that he is now on Bluesky.

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Quite a lot of anger in this room…… don’t you think?

Let me reset on what I have been saying so its clear and then I will leave you all in peace.

The first assumption is that we all agree our school systems are not producing the citizens we need and its not the student’s fault…… its ours.

Here are a list of things I have been told are wrong…

Many of our schools are not safe… for both students and teachers.

Teachers have had the ability to discipline taken away.

Students are not motivated to learn as they more than ever don’t see a good future.

The curriculum is too complicated and does not prioritize correctly.

Teachers are not in touch with the real world and transmit that disadvantage to the students.

We have lost the culture of a Nation and respect for it… some say we have a country that is now a post nation state.

We have injected many cultural distortions into our society, and these are badly transmitted to the students by a far more liberalized teaching body that has been bombarded with many social constructs, and not all of which will work or fit for purpose in the real world.

Some of these…

DEI

Woke jargon.

CRT … a bad idea many say.

The Climate Emergency

Multiculturalism

Cancel culture and disruptive history changing

Nation-hood norms and citizen training

Religious study

safe spaces

anti capitalization

anti colonialism

victim-hood versus oppressors

Anti - bullying and conflict control

Perverse sex education

Too much focus on social studies and not enough STEM

Not enough focus on reading writing and arithmetic.

Compliance with early gender change

The result we end up with young adults that are job-starved, over-educated and under-trained, snowflake, safe-spaced, sexually neurotic, drugged-up, suicide-prone youth of today.

And as I have said.. its not their fault its ours.

My only point is that the problem is far worse than a bunch of expensive bibles!

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Anything is better than left leaning woke nonsense being given to our children

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Wrong! Trump “bibles” in classrooms is way worse than woke nonsense on many levels, including patriotic ones.

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Please tell me what the woke was? I worked in the system for 40 years and never saw this stuff you are talking about. Give me facts and where. The GOP only brought rot into my town.

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"Woke" essentially means Knowing what's going ON, as opposed to the deep, severe Fool Aid stupor that's afflicted Trumpists

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Separation of church and state. The rest of the world learned the hard way.

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Some folks haven't learned it YET.

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Ok.. explain why you think a concise reading tool that instructs on how to be a good human being and how to behave in a western society is worse than Marxist rants about dangerous concepts such as DEI and a focus on Queers and Racism.

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It is not a focus anywhere. That is the GOP making things more than what they are. It was and still is about accepting eoe for who they are and move on. Parents are the problem. Kids say gay and other things in school. They just don’t tell you. I remember a day when gay people were mice red and beaten to death. Is that Gods way. What have we done to America? We were the most looked up to as a country in the world. I don’t tell people to come here anymore because they might be judged in some way. People don’t pick being gay. They are born that way and when you judge them, you are playing God. Let’s face it You are afraid of gays. You are afraid of Muslims and you hate blacks. Your party has speeded so much hate that I don’t know as a nation if we will survive or would you just kill off everyone who is different. Hid is watching you. If you were a true Christian you would not have hate in your heart. You have put in your party the crazy people. I will never go back I am so ashamed. Just so you know; I am very very white with green eyes and from the aryan race so I should feel superior to all of you but my parents taught me that we are all equal under the law and have the same rights as all humanity has. Quit playing God Oh wait. You think trump is a God. No he is the antichrist and you voted against your own Christian up bringing. Trump will never play fair because now he has religion and power behind him. I suggest you read how Hitler got in. He spewed hate too. Are we going to get rid of too or the Muslims or whoever else trump chooses. We are in a very dark time in our history and he alone brought it on. Now let’s see if you can live with it.

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Right On, Pam! (although I strongly feel Putin, Musk, P. Thiel, etc. are huge players.)

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We must not hate or disrespect people or we will perish.

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Ok.. explain why you think a concise reading tool that instructs on how to be a good human being and how to behave in a western society is worse than Marxist rants about dangerous concepts such as DEI and a focus on Queers and Racism.

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First of all I was a Republican and the majority of my life I was a Republican. Now I am ashamed of my own country. You do know we live in a free country and that our constitution says separation of church and state. You cannot teach a child to be gay nor can you stop them from reading things you think are wrong. They will get it anyway. We were trying to move forward with some guardrails but now our children will be so confused they will take years to understand who they really are as a person. You have elected another Hitler. May God forgive you.

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Identifying trump as another Hitler (or wannabe, thus far) is certainly not hyperbole.

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There never was such a thing. These people just wanted respect and you have played God and taken that away. Please do or call yourself a Christian because Jesus didn’t teach that.

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Separation of Church and State. We need to teach literature. Shakespeare!

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I totally agree and more critical thing and history by the best people who just tell facts. I wonder if these people even read. The Romans even when married sometimes had sex with same sex. Jeez

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Anyone who would make such a broad statement is hiding the fact he has nothing of meaning to say. ANYTHING, Nigel Southway? You can't think of anything worse than teaching CRT, the truth about our history and tolerance, even respect, for those who are different. Perhaps seeing undocument immigrant children torn from their classroom by federal law enforcement would be worse? Perhaps another, asis inevitablem mass school shooting?

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Remember that is not the Republican Party. It is the party of trump who wants to be the king of the world. Another 4 years of chaos. I’m waiting for him to promote a civil war and his people will follow. Did you go to the school and look at books or hear the teacher teaching homosexuality. You are a fool. The worse you might see is a family that has two women or two men raising their children. That is uncommon. You are stupid too to think that gay is something you catch. Really? It has been scientifically proven but you people don’t believe im science and yes there are many many Christians on our side. By the way you don’t own the flag. The American people own the flag and I am an American who used to be proud to say that I was.

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That brings to mind trump's ostentatious and ludicrous embracing/molesting the flag; obscene, rather than patriotic.

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I agree. They have become the party of hate. This is Christianity ? A lot of people haven’t read the teachings of Christ. Love thy neighbor as you would yourself. The GOP missed that. I still think that there is way too much money spent in elections that could be used for something besides power and Musk made sure that he got what he wanted. He only cares about himself. This will affect the world. They look to us as an example. I am so ashamed of my country.

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In response to each of your comments..

Look…I am not at all on the fringe… I am mainstream … most want CRT and all that nonsense out of our schools and get back to respecting our western nations and its history and not trying to change it…

“those who are different”…. Its for them to try to assimilate or conform and not use victimhood as an excuse and not drive us nuts with extra bathrooms and word salad pro nouns.

If we have illegals in our society they should have been sent back long ago.. got to stop the rot sometime…,. Lets start with the known criminals..

Mass shootings…. Mostly caused by low social respect and building a victim culture wont fix it ……nor will banning guns… just as much shootings in Canada… even with gun control…

Again… I am not the extremist… what i describe is how most of us experienced a happy western society and lets get back to that.

So again… tell me whats wrong with the good book?... or is it just a Trump hate thing?

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Yes things were different in the 60’s. We spread love. We had sit ins against a war. We were taught to respect others but these others were often killed or beaten to death and made fun of and sent to special camps so they wouldn’t be gay anymore.

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What is wrong with the good book? God became a man in the New Testament and suffered horribly, compensating for the sinners who had offended him. However, in the Old Testament this all-knowing, all merciful, omnipresent god whom, one would assume, could not have a change of heart or mind, drowned all life on Earth except Noah and the animals he brought with him. And before his incarnation as Jesus, he obviously could not care less about human life, born or unborn; he demonstrates great cruelty in this quote from Hosea: 16:

KJ21

"Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."

Only a narrow-minded hate-filled bigot would write "'those who are different'”…. Its for them to try to assimilate or conform..." Everyone has to agree with you, Trump, and Maga to avoid your wrath.

What do you say to American citizens who are Muslims? Should their good book be provided to students at public expense?

Unfortunately, you are not an extremist in today's America but you are, nonetheless a racist, bigot, and ignoramus.

You write, " most want CRT and all that nonsense out of our schools..." How do we make progress if we don't tell the truth about the past? Are you saying there was no trail of tears, no cruel chattel slavery, Jim Crow, or segregation in our past?

Trump ordered his stooge, Mike Johnson, to not allow a bipartisan bill crafted to reform immigration laws and strengthen border security to be brought up for a vote because he wanted the problems to continue as a campaign issue.

The failure to tell the truth is a big reason why we are in the dire straits we are today.

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Is that from the Old Testament? I went to Bible school and was taught to respect everyone as a human being. There was no hate. This is sick. You must be waiting for all the people like you to get in power so we can kill all the people who don’t think the same as you? Is that why you elected another Hitler?

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Listen sunshine lay off the personal disrespect… I am not doing that…

Everybody can still follow along with the book and assimilate as its clear that multiculturalism was a mistake and this nation was founded on Christian beliefs.

Look CRT is not going forward… it has no place in our society … get over it.

Here is a link.. Woke: A Culture War Against Europe | James Lindsay at the European Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZPYQS1dFA&t=104s

We can tell our history even with its mistakes and flaws….. And…It must not be changed.

The western culture is something to be proud of.. ..we have provided a lot…I don’t see much technology and modern medicine in wigwams, mud-huts and eastern mosques.!

We need to take our nation back.

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You people have gone crazy. Trump has brought out the worst in us. Our forefathers were not all Christians. Separation of church and state. It has n er ended Welkom history. People use It for power just like trump. You are a racist backward individual who has no place in this society

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CRT is the story of something cruel and horrible that occurred in our country. Its legacy lived on through Jim Crow, segregation and discrimination. I love this country for the progress it has made toward achieving worthwhile goals. Through amendments to the Constitution and legislation we have moved closer to the values of equality, justice, democracy and respect for all, in spite of the superficial differences among groups of human beings.

You can not progress without understanding the mistakes made in the past.

Now and then, we need to be reminded:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

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Why do you think we are trying to change it. Kids should have lots of exposure to different ideas in high school. They need to have critical thinking skills. CRT is a college level class. The only way you could take it is if your child chooses it and he is smart enough to take college level classes in high school. Please enlighten me as to what you object to that is taught in our western history.? All of the things you mentioned could be talked about in government.

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The GOP I once belonged to has become the party of hate. Go ahead deport them all every last one of them. See if you can get a white guy to work those jobs. You are a hard right person who fears change. The kids do better than we do. Divide and conquer that’s trumps motto. He learned about your fears and knew to use your God as a weapon. He had a bill for immigration but he refused. He owns the party now. I will not kiss the ring of trump.

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That was never seen in Florida. Trump made up a bunch of stuff. His goal was fear and you fell for it. We will no longer be free. We will no longer have the respect of the world. I am so ashamed.

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whatever you say.... anyway its being fixed now.

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So you say. You are still the party of hate. The great experiment hasn’t worked because trump doesn’t want it to. He loves how he and his dictator friends showed him how to end us. We will eveikill each other because trump hopes it will happen. Then he will own you all. You

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Are you really a professor? You don't respond to our comments because you have no valid counterpoint. You admit this when you post, "whatever you say."

Is it being fixed by forcing the public to pay for Trump's blasphemous Bible, conflating patriotism with "Christian" nationalism? His Bible, MADE IN CHINA, will cost the taxpayers of Oklahoma $60 + a $36 tariff= $96. Of course, Trump's profit from this scam will increase. The fix is in. That is true.

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He has done so many bad things and never been held accountable and you will give him more power. That’s what “whatever means”

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"Whatever" is the classic "cop out", along with its absurdity.

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You need to calm down and think about what are you so wound up about. Its about a choice being made that is far from extreme. I can think of far worse things to expose our children too.. and that's all I have been saying.

I think its just Trump Hate. And by the way he is the next president so get over it. Or do you also have a problem with the process of democracy?

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I love democracy but the American people have been lied to. It is Trump, not men like Jack Smith, who represent a threat to democracy and rule by law. It is Trump and his coterie of evil men like Bannon, Stone, and Alex Jones who want to weaponize the justice system and put an end to our constitutional and human rights.

I am calm and I say exactly what I mean and I back it up. You have nothing to offer. Did you like it when Trump showed his crowd, filled with "Christians," how to perform fellatio on a microphone at his rally?

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Well, the microphone

is easier to FIND than anything of Trump's, thus facilitating the lesson.

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I do when the GOP ants to destroy it. I will never forgive you for what you have done to my country. Your party has gotten away with mixer and you gave it to a sociopath and you all know it. You

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We "need to calm down"?

Methinks we

prefer to "calm up"

- with your kind permission, of course.

As for trump

"getting over"

hate, his plan of sending everyone he dislikes to *"camps" doesn't show it.

*Or should that be "kampfs", in deference to trump's idol?

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Was the 1/6 insurrection a demonstration of support for democracy?

Is Ryan Walter buying Trump's made in China, overpriced Bibles, something you condone though it is in in clear violation of the 1st amendment?

How about addressing the issues and questions with actual responses.

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In any other country’s Jan 6 would have been grounds to fire and arrest people. Whoever heard of a president with all cases brought tried to over turn an election that cost lives and the same people are serving. It’s disgusting and evil. We have embarrassed ourselves in front of the whole world. We are like children on a playground that deman a ridicule others. They have no business even calling themselves Christian’s. I had more rights in the 60’s at school. Start with being good parents and teaching your kids to respect others. Mine did.

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good nite

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Yes, "fixed" is what trump and his associates do - never with any semblance of honesty nor fundamental humanity.

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MAGA is the nonsense!

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The election is over... have more respect for your new Government :-)

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I refuse to respect or bow to fascists or their lickspittle sycophants and with every nomination announced, more Americans are waking up to the threat your hero, the Orange with a Turd for a brain, represents. In the long run, the arc of history bends to the good and that is how I know you racist, bigoted, misogynists will lose just like Mussolini and Hitler lost.

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Certainly - if and when "my new government" embodies _respectability_ .

.That appears rather unlikely, in the foreseeable future.

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"left leaning woke nonsense"

An oxymoron.

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Just wait. You will see what I mean.

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I am not sure I can bring myself to listen to this one. The combined IQ of these two is 80.

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